Greenlaw, Rachel
Summary: "On the remote isle of Rosevear, Mira, like her mother before her, is a wrecker, one of the seven on the rope who swim out to shipwrecks to plunder them. Mira's job is to rescue survivors, if there are any. After all, she never feels the cold of the frigid ocean waters and the waves seem to sing to her soul. But the people of Rosevear never admit the truth: that they set the beacons themselves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: When a Swiss couple and their four sons are shipwrecked on an isolated island, they adapt to their "New Switzerland" using many imaginative methods of farming and animal taming.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fingerprint! Publishing, 0000
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Summary: Sarah's dad and stepmom then decide to take the whole family on a special vacation in order to break the ice and have everyone get to know one another. They'll fly to Tahiti, charter a boat, and go sailing for a few days. It'll be an adventure, right? Wrong. Dead wrong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BODFarook, Nizrana
Summary: Razi, a local fisherboy, is watching turtle eggs hatch when he sees a boat bobbing into view. With a chill, he notices a small, still hand hanging over the side. Inside is Zheng, who's escaped a shipwreck and is full of tales of sea monsters and missing treasure. But the villains who are after Zheng are soon after Razi and his sister, Shifa, too.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC FARContents: To build a fire / Jack London -- The great unknown / John Welsey Powell -- The battle of the marten and the porcupine / Mayne Reid -- Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe -- Love of life / Jack London -- Shipwreck of the whaleship Essex / Owen Chase -- An adventure with a dog and a glacier / John Muir -- The boat journey / Ernest Shackleton -- Battle with the giant octopus / Victor Hugo -- Encounter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2004
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Summary: Set in northern Europe in the year 850, best friends Candamir and Osmund set out to find new land for their people after their village is attacked, but on their quest they encounter a violent storm and are washed ashore on the island of Catan where they quickly set about building a new society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gable 2011Katsu, Alma
Summary: "Surviving the sinking of the Titanic, Annie takes a job as a nurse on the Britannic before encountering a fellow survivor who forces her to reckon with past demons."-
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Katsu 2020Summary: Stories about human beings fighting to stay alive. The people in these stories find themselves in nightmarish circumstances - cut off from civilization, often starving or dying of thirst - and have to struggle to survive. Many of them confront the prospect of resorting to eating thier companions - or being eaten themselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.69 SURGaynor, Hazel
Summary: "Inspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters, in a moving and triumphant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor. 1940, Kent: Alice King is not brave or daring--she's happiest finding adventure through the safe pages of books. But times of war demand courage, and as the threat of German invasion looms, a plane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GAYGaynor, Hazel
Summary: "Inspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters, in a moving and triumphant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor. 1940, Kent: Alice King is not brave or daring--she's happiest finding adventure through the safe pages of books. But times of war demand courage, and as the threat of German invasion looms, a plane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 0000
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Summary: "A sweeping Elizabethan historical fantasy from an internationally renowned author that evokes the seafaring adventures of Robert Louis Stevenson with the magic of The Bear and the Nightingale"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAMorpurgo, Michael
Summary: A young boy and his father take in a lost girl, who the villagers suspect may be German.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MORO'Brian, Patrick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRDeMille, Nelson.
Summary: After two Concorde jets headed for a U.N. conference that will bring peace to the Middle East is brought down by a bomb, the occupants of the plane must make a stand against an army of Palestine commandos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1978
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEMBodeen, S. A. (Stephanie A.)
Summary: Shipwrecked with her family on a remote island, Sarah Robinson learns about the existence of a mysterious Keeper right before her father and younger brother go missing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BODCallahan, Patti
Summary: "It was called "The Titanic of the South." The luxury steamship sank in 1838 with Savannah's elite on board; through time, their fates were forgotten--until the wreck was found, and now their story is finally being told in this breathtaking novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis. When Savannah history professor Everly Winthrop is asked to guest-curate a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction CallahanGolding, William
Summary: The classic study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 1997
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC GOLJones, Ben
Summary: "Brendan Kane is a dreamy, directionless young man in 1860's New England. Inspired by a traveling recruiter, he signs up for the Union cause and experiences the full horrors of the Civil War. He deserts, drifting north into the draft riots in New York and , finally, meets his fate in the form of the Narthex, a strangely shaped vessel anchored in the harbor of a whaling town."-Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JONVan Dusen, Chris
Summary: After courageously swimming to shore when the ship that they are traveling on sinks and the wretched captain does nothing to rescue them, circus animals find a way to become a valued part of a coastal community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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Summary: It "tells the story of plane crash survivors in the stark winter wilderness of Northern Ontario, Canada. Against overwhelming odds, they struggle to over come their advertises, and hardships, with a little help from a friend"--P. 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: West Bow Press 2010
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Summary: The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of finding the Northwest Passage. When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. But as another winter approaches, as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible, and as the Terror on the ice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SIMAlcott, Kate.
Summary: Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she's had an incredibly lucky break when she is hired by famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon to be a personal maid on the Titanic's doomed voyage. Once on board, Tess catches the eye of two men, one a roughly-hewn but kind sailor and the other an enigmatic Chicago millionaire. But on the fourth night, disaster strikes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALCAlbom, Mitch
Summary: After a deadly ship explosion, nine people, adrift in a raft, struggle to survive at sea and pull a strange man from the sea who claims to be the Lord.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALBGolding, William
Summary: This much-acclaimed debut novel uses a group of shipwrecked children to show the strengths and weaknesses of adult society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alianza Editorial 2010